Citation: Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 1:7 (1804).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tufted centrolepis.

Description:
Perennial herb forming dense cushions 3-12 cm diam., bright-green; leaves numerous, linear-filiform, acute, 1-4.5 cm long, c. 0.8 mm wide, straight, spreading, soft, sparsely pilose in the basal half; innermost leaf reduced to a hyaline sheath.

Scapes few, terete, filiform, 2.5-6 cm long, glabrous; head broadly ovoid, c. 3 mm long; primary bracts subopposite, gaping apart, subequal, with keelless herbaceous stiffly hairy bases tapered into glabrous leaf-like apices to 3 mm long; pseudanthia 8-14; secondary bracts mostly truncate, 2 per pseudanthium; female florets 2-4 per pseudanthium; styles connate at the base only.

Seed c. 0.5 mm long; scapes and bracts persistent after fruiting.

Distribution:  On margins of swamps and in moist microhabitats within forest. S.Aust.: EP, SL, KI, SE.   All States except the N.T.   New Guinea. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — Feb.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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